"Civil servants & ramen with Nammers..."
so once again i was wandering around the streets of Downtown Vancouver during my lunchbreak, and of course i brought my new toy (Canon SD110) with me. ah...so this is our tax money at work:
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neway, today i thought i'd take a walk down Granville (north of Robson) n check out what kinda guitars i could find at the pawn shop, and so i'm walkin down the street when i think i hear my name being called (a mumbled "Raph" can sound like a lotta stuff), but i don't think anything of it n just keep walking. all of a sudden i hear it again, louder this time, n i turn around n who do i see? my buddy mr. vuong... turns out eric's chillin downtown for lunch w/ binh after doing the Grouse Grind in the morning. haven't seen these guys for a while since goin away for school out east, plus it just so happened to be binh's birthday too so we go grab some ramen n gyoza. so i was a bit late coming back from lunch, but so what? it was worth it for me to get this shot of eric snortin noodles, n binh...ah well binh's just binh (he never did like taking pictures)...met this guy when we were like what, 15? n he's friggin looked like he's 50 ever since! lol the hat makes him look younger though.
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Thursday June 24, 2004
"Working hard..."
so...after working for over a month this summer in a challenging office environment at one of Canada's leading polytechincalinstitutes, what have i learned? well for one, you always need to come to work prepared! par exemple, in a business environment such as this, you need to have the right "equipment". i might've been fine hauling my backpack to UW everyday, but at an office in downtown vancouver you don't want to be trekking around with a "knapsack" (as the old office ladies call it) and risk being mistaken for a student instead of an employee! therefore, i resolved to purchase a more...er.."mature" looking piece of luggage. now i didn't wanna get some old fogey lookin' thing, something in between the shiny leather briefcases along Wall Street and the velcro covered packs all over SFU. so, the SportChek down the street from my office was having this crazy "5 Days of Madness" sale, n i picked up a nice, "professional" yet not too "accountant-like" brief:
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does it serve its purpose? hell yeah...
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excellent functionality! nipple approved ( . )
(to be continued...)